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a fruit that's 92% water and still somehow refreshing enough to fight you for the last slice
means A large, round summer fruit with a hard green rind and sweet, juicy red (sometimes yellow) flesh dotted with seeds, eaten fresh or chilled.
from A straightforward English compound — 'water' plus 'melon' — naming the fruit for its famously high water content, with 'melon' itself tracing back through Latin 'melo' to Greek 'mēlon,' originally meaning 'apple' but loosely applied to all sorts of round fruits and gourds. The plant itself is far older than the English name, native to Africa and cultivated for thousands of years.
- ancient roots
- Egyptians buried watermelons with pharaohs for the afterlife
- square ones
- Japan grows cube-shaped melons for easy stacking
- all edible
- Rind and seeds are both fully edible
- record weight
- Heaviest ever topped 350 pounds
- botanical truth
- It's technically a berry, not a fruit you'd guess
florida watermelon festival — annual event in paulsboro, florida since 1987 celebrating the state's watermelon harvest
densuke watermelon — luxury black watermelon from shikoku, japan, sold at auction for up to $6,100 per melon
charleston gray watermelon — heirloom variety developed in south carolina in 1954, dominant commercial cultivar for decades